Eurovision?

So on my lazy day (one of many at the moment), I'm lying in my bed watching This Morning, and on appears a girl looking pretty ordinary to be honest, jeans, t-shirt, baggy cardi, not much make-up but looking pretty fresh, and we find out she's called Lena, 19 and from Germany and for all the reasons to be famous, she recently won Eurovision. "Here we go" I thought to myself, Eurovision can only usually mean one thing. But I hate to admit, I quite liked it. I then thought about the year before and the winner from then, I quite liked as well. Here are those two songs, by Alexander Rybak and Lena.

It got me thinking. UK doesn't usually get that close and are more likely to finish bottom because of the whole political involvement that we seem to have with every country (I mean even Ireland don't vote for us anymore) and therefore most countries hate us except maybe the Americans on the odd occasion, and if you haven't learnt about continents in Geography, (which is probably likely, as I'd say Geography is the closest subject to Art, it involves a lot of colouring in), America isn't in Europe, therefore, we don't stand a chance. But is there anything good to come out of Eurovision except highlight the fact that some countires like each other, and some don't? Eurovision is well known to be the thing you watch when you get a bit older, i.e. your grandparents, yet I'm sure many of us will sit down and watch it, although not admit it. "Sadly" I missed it this year due to work but from the standard of the last two winners, maybe it isn't that bad after all. Ok so they're not amazing, and won't be to everyone's taste, but they're not bad. So should Eurovision continue? Music is like art, it brings people together but does it solve problems? We can all create paintings on peace and observe them as a whole and say it is a good idea, but it won't bring peace. Is Eurovision the same?